He is very much -- it's odd. He is a kind of hard-headed realist from the Eisenhower/Nixon/Kissinger school, and he does not believe that the role of the U.S. military is to write a blank check to Afghanistan for the next 25 years.
Discussion on Obama's realist approach to military involvement in Afghanistan.
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